"Nick Bottom Nick Bottom is a character in Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" who provides comic relief throughout the play. A weaver by trade, he is famously known for getting his head transformed into that of a donkey by the elusive Puck. Bottom and Puck are the only two characters who converse with and progress the three central stories in the whole play. Puck is first introduced in the fairies' story and creates the drama of the lovers' story by messing up who loves whom, and places the donkey head on Bottom's in his story. Similarly, Bottom is performing in"
"a bookish character, caught up in the minute details of his play, but as a theatrical organizer. However, in the 1999 film version of ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", he is portrayed by Roger Rees as a strong character extremely capable of being a director. It is he who leads the search party looking for Nick Bottom in the middle of the play. Many interpret Quince to be an author surrogate, representing William Shakespeare, albeit a comical version of himself. The character is named in the title of a Wallace Stevens poem, ""Peter Quince at the Clavier"", which is written in"
"a victim of a largely conservative and ""snobbish"" attitude from theatre managers, that the comedian was ""cut out for Shakespeare"", and that if he had been frequently engaged in playing the Bard's works, then ""Shakespeare would probably have been popular."" In 1934, the theatre director Sydney Carroll offered Robey the chance to appear as Nick Bottom in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, but he initially declined the offer, citing a hectic schedule, including a conflict with his appearance in that year's Royal Variety Performance on 8 May. He was also concerned that he would"
"the mechanical Nick Bottom. Bottom has been also enchanted and has the head of an ass. They are observed by other fairy folk, and the scene is decorated with flowers and rabbits. The work measures . It was one of several paintings of scenes from works by Shakespeare commissioned by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1847 to decorate the dining room of his house in London. Landseer was paid £450. Brunel left the choice of subject to the artists, and Landseer may have chosen this scene so he could include several animals. Other works were commissioned from Charles West Cope, Augustus"
"possible that the ""Midsummer Night's Dream"" character is meant to be the same person in a continuation of the story. However, the two characters have little else in common. Another candidate for the source of Philostrate's character is Philostratus the Elder, the author of ""Comus"", a play which has similarities to ""Midsummer Night's Dream"". Philostrate's duty in Theseus' court is to examine the play that Nick Bottom and the others are about to perform and to make suggestions for improvement. It is also his duty to advise Theseus on matters of entertainment. Theseus calls him ""our usual manager of mirth""."
"Felix Felton Robert Forbes Felton (12 August 1911 – 21 October 1972), known professionally as Felix Felton, was a British film, television, stage and voice actor as well as a radio director, composer and author. In his earlier years Felton considered becoming a professional pianist, a composer or a classical scholar, but instead chose to become an actor. At the University of Oxford where he studied Music he was President of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. He began his acting career as Bottom in Max Reinhardt's production of ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". He joined BBC Radio in 1934 where he"
"at the New Theatre which also had Elsa Lanchester and Albert Finney in the cast. He made his final appearances on stage as Nick Bottom in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", and as King Lear at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1959, although failing health resulted in both performances being disappointing, according to some British critics. His performance as King Lear was lambasted by critics, including Kenneth Tynan, who wrote that Laughton's Nick Bottom ""... behaves in a manner that has nothing to do with acting, although it perfectly hits off the demeanor of a rapscallion uncle dressed up to entertain"
"is getting what he wants"", referring to Nick Bottom, who runs a theatre troupe with his brother Nigel. They are rehearsing for their upcoming play ""Richard II"", while William Shakespeare (referred to as ""The Bard"") is opening Romeo and Juliet. Lord Clapham, a patron who trusts the brothers and raises funds for their troupe, enters to announce that Shakespeare is doing ""Richard II"". The news outrages Nick, as Shakespeare has already done ""Richard III"", and the thought of going backwards seems absurd to him. He rants about his hatred of Shakespeare to the troupe members, who are horrified (""God, I"
"were described at the time as ""the best film ever to leave a Danish factory."" Poulsen's brother Emil staged Royal Danish Theatre plays in addition to being an acclaimed dramatic actor. Olaf Poulsen Olaf Poulsen (26 April 1849 – 26 March 1923) was perhaps the best-known Danish comedic stage actor of his time. He was famous for playing such roles as Nick Bottom in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" and Falstaff, among others for the Royal Danish Theatre. His performance as Old Ekdal in an 1885 production of Henrik Ibsen's ""The Wild Duck"" was particularly acclaimed. Olaf was by accounts an"
"her pre-teens, Mitchell also wrote stories set in foreign locations, such as ""The Greaser"" (1913), a cowboy story set in Mexico. In 1913 she wrote two stories with Civil War settings; one includes her notation that ""237 pages are in this book"". While the Great War carried on in Europe (1914–1918), Margaret Mitchell attended Atlanta's Washington Seminary (now The Westminster Schools), a ""fashionable"" private girls' school with an enrollment of over 300 students. She was very active in the Drama Club. Mitchell played the male characters: Nick Bottom in Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" and Launcelot Gobbo in Shakespeare's ""The"
"Cobweb, and Peaseblossom. Nick Bottom provides comic relief throughout the play. A weaver by trade, he is famously known for getting his head transformed into that of a donkey by the elusive Puck. Bottom and Puck are the only two characters who converse with and progress the three central stories in the whole play. Puck is first introduced in the fairies' story and creates the drama of the lovers' story by messing up who loves whom, and places the donkey head on Bottom's in his story. Similarly, Bottom is performing in a play in his story intending it to be"
"Olaf Poulsen Olaf Poulsen (26 April 1849 – 26 March 1923) was perhaps the best-known Danish comedic stage actor of his time. He was famous for playing such roles as Nick Bottom in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" and Falstaff, among others for the Royal Danish Theatre. His performance as Old Ekdal in an 1885 production of Henrik Ibsen's ""The Wild Duck"" was particularly acclaimed. Olaf was by accounts an outsize personality, unafraid to insult wealthy or noble men even when insulting a man in public was a crime in Denmark. Five minutes of his improvisation on a 1913 film reel"
"English names. On the Elizabethan stage, the role of Flute and the other Mechanicals was intended to be doubled with Titania's four fairy escorts: Moth (also spelled Mote), Mustardseed, Cobweb, and Peaseblossom. Francis Flute Francis Flute is a character in William Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". His occupation is a bellows-mender. He is forced to play the female role of Thisbe in ""Pyramus and Thisbe"", a play-within-the-play which is performed for Theseus' marriage celebration. In the play Flute (Thisbe) speaks through the wall (played by Tom Snout) to Pyramus (Nick Bottom). Flute is a young, excited actor who is disappointed"
"A Midsummer Night's Dream A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, the former queen of the Amazons. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (the mechanicals) who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world. The play consists of four"
"""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" to modern rave culture. Unlike ""Rave Macbeth""—released a year earlier and also adapting a Shakespeare play, ""Macbeth"", into the context of rave culture—""A Midsummer Night's Rave's"" plot also explores the characters' activities outside of the rave: Xander (Lysander) and Mia (Hermia) needs the aid of a rave and a green glowing drug, provided by a British mystic, O. B. John (Oberon), to admit their love for each other; a drug dealer, apparently modelled on Shylock, named Doc wants his stolen drug money; and Nick (Nick Bottom) dons a donkey costume at a daycare center. The plot"
"recent times the distinction between 'amateur' and 'professional' has been blurred further, with professional companies encouraging community involvement in their productions through using local amateur companies. An example of this is the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2016 tour of ""A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Play for the Nation"": in each of the 14 cities visited by the touring show, the company recruited local members of amateur companies to play the parts of Nick Bottom and the other Mechanicals. People throughout Great Britain participate in amateur theatre as performers, crew or audience members and many children first experience live theatre during local"
"or hissed like a plain villain, and, in fact, we have seldom seen a man smile and smile and be a villain so adequately."" His biggest success of the season was as Bottom in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". Both Agate and Darlington commented on how the actor transformed the character from the bumbling workman to the magically changed creature on whom Titania dotes. Agate wrote that most of those who had played the part hitherto ""seem to have thought Bottom, with the ass's head on, was the same Bottom, only funnier. Shakespeare says he was 'translated', and Mr Richardson translated"
"play Pyramus's father, but the need for a wall was greater, so he discharged ""The Wall"". Snout is often portrayed as a reluctant actor and very frightened, but the other mechanicals (except Bottom and Quince) are usually much more frightened than Tom Snout. Snout's name, like that of the other mechanicals, is metonymical and derives from his craft: ""Snout"" means a nozzle or a spout, a feature of the kettles a tinker often mends. Tom Snout Tom Snout is a character in William Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". He is a tinker, and one of the ""mechanicals"" of Athens, amateur"
"Mechanical (character) A mechanical is any of six characters in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" who perform the play-within-a-play ""Pyramus and Thisbe"". Named for their occupations as skilled manual laborers, they are a group of amateur and mostly incompetent actors from around Athens, looking to make names for themselves by having their production chosen among several acts as the courtly entertainment for the royal wedding party of Theseus and Hippolyta. The biggest ham among them, Bottom, becomes the unlikely object of interest for the fairy queen Titania after she is charmed by a love potion and he is turned into a"
"Actors who have played the role on film include Paul Rogers, James Cagney and Kevin Kline. In the BBC Television Shakespeare version he is played by Brian Glover. Bottom has been the subject of several paintings. German composer Hans Werner Henze has used Bottom twice as an inspiration: in the second sonata which comprises his ""Royal Winter Music"" and in his Eighth Symphony. Nick Bottom is also the main character from Tony nominated musical ""Something Rotten!"" about Bottom competing as a playwright against William Shakespeare, his name being a reference to Shakespeare's play. Nick Bottom Nick Bottom is a character"
"drama teacher, he attended the Lancashire Schools Arts Workshop in North Wales, before being accepted into LAMDA. On graduation, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company on an 18-month contract. 10 years later, he played the part of Bottom in ""A Midsummer Night’s Dream"" at RSC in 1999/2000. He has also starred in both ""Fallout"" and ""Posh"" at the Royal Court Theatre, and was in ""Mammals"" at the BushTheatre and later on tour. In 2008 he appeared in ""Gethsemane"", a new play by David Hare at the National Theatre. He appeared on the Teen Drama ""Skins"" as the father of the"
"hand away. Bea tells him how she could help them out, but Nick is ambivalent (""Right Hand Man""). Despite Nick's arguments, Bea goes out to do jobs that Nick claims are for men. As Nigel sleeps, Nick faces the real reason he hates Shakespeare: ""The Bard"" makes Nick feel self-conscious (""God, I Hate Shakespeare (Reprise)""). He wishes there was a way to top Shakespeare, and steals from the Money Box to see a soothsayer. He finds a soothsayer named Thomas Nostradamus (the nephew of the famous soothsayer Nostradamus). Nick asks him what the next big thing in theatre will be,"
"play, Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream."" His advances are slow-going at first. Rich, a short-statured, but well-built part of the popular teen group bullies Jeremy. During a rather uncomfortable encounter in the bathroom, Rich informs Jeremy that he really needs to become cool, hinting at something that could help, but leaves before he can explain it further. Jeremy digs deeper into this matter, asking Michael if he's ever heard of something like this before. Michael tells him that he's vaguely heard of a technology that can improve your life; he thinks it's called a ""script"" and he suspects his brother"
"Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Titania and Bottom is an 1851 oil-on-canvas painting by British artist Edwin Landseer. Landseer was mainly known for his paintings of animals: this is his only painting of a fairy scene. The painting depicts a scene from the third act of William Shakespeare's play ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". It has been in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia since 1932. The painting shows Titania, Queen of the Fairies, after she has been given a love potion, embracing the temporary object of her love,"
"puts all to rights, pairing Lysander back with Hermia and Demetrius with Helena, and reconciling with his own queen, Titania. In the final part, Bottom and his troupe of ""rude Mechanicals"" perform their amateur play, based on the tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe, before Duke Theseus (David Strathairn), his wife Hippolyta (Sophie Marceau), and the court, unintentionally producing a comedy that turns to be a tragedy. ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" was filmed on location in Lazio and Tuscany, and at Cinecittà Studios, Rome, Italy. The action of the play was transported from Athens, Greece, to a fictional Monte Athena, located"
"Cagney the chance to return to his song-and-dance roots. The film includes show-stopping scenes with Busby Berkeley-choreographed routines. His next notable film was 1934's ""Here Comes the Navy"", which paired him with Pat O'Brien for the first time. The two would have an enduring friendship. In 1935, Cagney was listed as one of the Top Ten Moneymakers in Hollywood for the first time, and was cast more frequently in nongangster roles; he played a lawyer who joins the FBI in ""G-Men"", and he also took on his first, and only, Shakespearean role, as top-billed Nick Bottom in ""A Midsummer Night's"
"Philostrate Philostrate (; meaning ""lover of battle"") is a fictional character in a number of literary works, including William Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" (1596). In that play, he is the Master of Revels at Theseus' court, meaning he is in charge of his lord's entertainments, making recommendations to Theseus, as well as altering the text of some of the plays performed in his court. Shakespeare may have used this character to poke fun at play censorship in London at the time. In early performances of the play, the actor who played this character probably also played the part of"
"my eyes, for fear"", No. XV in his 1896 collection ""A Shropshire Lad"". It refers to the Greek legend of Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection:""<poem> The jonquil is a species of narcissus, ""Narcissus jonquilla"". In the Middle Ages, it was a widespread custom to appoint a boy bishop, for example from among cathedral choristers, to parody the actual bishop on some particular church feast day. Puck is a mischievous supernatural creature in Celtic folklore. He is perhaps best known from the character Puck in Shakespeare's play ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". Three Pastels Three Pastels is a"
"Tom Snout Tom Snout is a character in William Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". He is a tinker, and one of the ""mechanicals"" of Athens, amateur players in ""Pyramus and Thisbe"", a play within the play. In the play-within-a-play, Tom Snout plays the wall which separates Pyramus' and Thisbe's gardens. In ""Pyramus and Thisbe"", the two lovers whisper to each other through Snout's fingers (representing a chink in the wall). Snout has eight lines under the name of Tom Snout, and two lines as ""The Wall"". He is the Wall for Act V-Scene 1. Tom Snout was originally set to"
"Francis Flute Francis Flute is a character in William Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". His occupation is a bellows-mender. He is forced to play the female role of Thisbe in ""Pyramus and Thisbe"", a play-within-the-play which is performed for Theseus' marriage celebration. In the play Flute (Thisbe) speaks through the wall (played by Tom Snout) to Pyramus (Nick Bottom). Flute is a young, excited actor who is disappointed when he finds he is meant to play a woman (Thisbe) in their interlude before the duke and the duchess. He generally is portrayed using a falsetto voice. He is an unsure"
"Bottom from Monique Panchaud de Bottomes, gives Pett Bottom, where Charmian lives. Pett Bottom is also the name of a real place which amused Fleming when he stopped for lunch after a round of golf at Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich. Ernst Stavro Blofeld's name partially comes from Tom Blofeld, a Norfolk farmer and a fellow member of Fleming's club Boodle's, who was a contemporary of Fleming's at Eton. Tom Blofeld's son is Henry Blofeld, a sports journalist, best known as a cricket commentator for ""Test Match Special"" on BBC Radio. For Blofeld's pseudonym in the novel, Dr. Guntram"
"before studying journalism at Aoraki Polytechnic, from where he graduated in 1991. He then worked as a rural reporter for ""The Press"" newspaper in Christchurch until the end of 1993, before studying drama at Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School, graduating in 1995. He played Bottom in the graduating class's production of ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". His first production after graduating was the critically acclaimed ""Knot A Problem""—a solo show that he wrote while at drama school loosely based on his own life—at BATS Theatre in Wellington as part of the 1996 New Zealand Fringe Festival. Later that year he"
"richness of character. He thought that Bottom was conceited but good natured, and shows a considerable store of imagination in his interaction with the representatives of the fairy world. He also argued that Bottom's conceit was a quality inseparable from his secondary profession, that of an actor. In 1872, Henry N. Hudson, an American clergyman and editor of Shakespeare, also wrote comments on this play. Kehler pays little attention to his writings, as they were largely derivative of previous works. She notes, however, that Hudson too believed that the play should be viewed as a dream. He cited the lightness"